Hristo Batandzhiev was a revolutionary, one of the founders of "The Committee for Obtaining the Political Rights Given to Macedonia by the Congress of Berlin" from which, later developed the IMRO known prior to 1902 as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC). He is considered Bulgarian

Bulgarians

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 in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 and ethnic Macedonian

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 in the Republic of Macedonia.

He was a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate

Bulgarian Exarchate

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 school in Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

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 and Secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city between 1888 and 1911. Batandzhiev also participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 |Macedonia]] affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian peasants and to some extent of the Aromanian population of the region...

. After the Young Turk Revolution

Young Turk Revolution

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 from 1908, he was an active member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs

Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs

Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs was an ethnic Bulgarian political party in the Ottoman Empire, created after the Young Turk Revolution, by members of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. The party functioned for a little over a year - from September 1908 until November 1909...

Party.

In July 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War

Second Balkan War

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, Hristo Batandzhiev was arrested by the Greek authorities. He was about to be deported to the island of Trikeri

Trikeri

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 in the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

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, together with many other Bulgarians. During the trip however, he, the Bulgarian Archimandrite Еvlogi and many others were left in the open sea and drowned.

Sources

• Encyclopedia "Bulgaria", vol. 1, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1978 (in Bulgarian
  Bulgarian language
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  ): Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978).